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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 05:43 PM Mar 2019

North Korea Brings Rocket Site Back to Life

Source: PoliticalWire



March 8, 2019 at 3:29 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

“The U.S. is ‘watching in real time’ developments at a long-range rocket site that North Korea is believed to have rebuilt,” NBC News reports.

“The Sohae facility has been used in the past for satellite launches which employ similar technology to what is required to fire intercontinental ballistic missiles. It is now back to “normal operating status,” according to new commercial images and analysis from two teams of researchers.”

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-rocket-site-being-monitored-real-time-u-s-n980846?cid=public-rss_20190308

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North Korea Brings Rocket Site Back to Life (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2019 OP
Yup. Igel Mar 2019 #1
Way to go, IQ45!!!!! MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #2
Trumps response to the images....fake phoney photoshop news SummerSnow Mar 2019 #3
Activity being monitored at a second missile site in North Korea soryang Mar 2019 #4
Link to BBC nitpicker Mar 2019 #8
Win! Win! Win!! Hulk Mar 2019 #5
Why am I not surprised??? cheezmaka Mar 2019 #6
STumpy fled Cohens' day in court to piddle around with the n. korean liar.. Maxheader Mar 2019 #7

Igel

(35,359 posts)
1. Yup.
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 06:19 PM
Mar 2019

Some reports say that photographic evidence says it started in "mid-February." The reports of the activity started a couple of days after the negotiations failed, with the assumption being the restart happened after the negotiations failed. It took a few days longer for somebody to come along and try to point out when the activity itself started, and few actually liked having to push the restart time back. Didn't sit quite right.

Gotta wonder if that wasn't part of the reason the negotiations went wobbly.

On edit: Earliest photo I can find reference to is 2/22, 5 days before the summit started.

soryang

(3,299 posts)
4. Activity being monitored at a second missile site in North Korea
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 06:49 PM
Mar 2019

Increased activity noted as movement of materials by trucks considered missile related by South Korean intelligence at a second site was reported in this Channel A News program. That site is the Sanumdong missile general research complex 112 km to the southeast of Tongchang Ri. This site is considered significant because it is a place where ICBMs, like the Hwasong 15, are assembled and produced.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/117811850

Joel Witt has an opinion up on 38North.com suggesting that perhaps the Sohae improvements may be getting ready for a space launch April 15, for Kim Il Sung's birthday. He compares the issues involved in the breakdown of the so called leap year deal in 2012 due to a missile launch in April of that year.

The Leap Day Deal: A Cautionary Tale for the Trump Administration
BY: JOEL S. WIT

https://www.38north.org/2019/03/editor030719/

*38 North is a website devoted to informed analysis of North Korea.




 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
5. Win! Win! Win!!
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 07:43 PM
Mar 2019

I'm so tired of winning all the time. I hear we just had the biggest trade deficit in history!? Another record set with this complete incompetent jackass.

Maxheader

(4,374 posts)
7. STumpy fled Cohens' day in court to piddle around with the n. korean liar..
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 07:52 PM
Mar 2019


Stupid imbecile.."out of sight...out of mind"...

Just like its barricaded life in the white house...
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